How To Check Android App Memory Usage

Don’t you think that checking your Android app memory usage is important? Let’s take an example. You got yourself a brand new Android device and you start fiddling with it right away. You will definitely install a number of apps and games. Life will be amazing for you and for your android device until one fine day when the device will finally tell you to slow down ! How will android convey this message to you ? It will stop responding instantaneously to your gestures.

Yes, It will slow down.

This may be a very common problem faced by a number of users. People will say that it all depends on the hardware configuration of your android device. True, however it also depends on the way you treat your device. The key here is the Android memory management or to simply put it, to check the Android app memory usage.

A lot of us will install tons of apps on our devices. We won’t be using all the apps everyday and will not care to check if the apps are running in the background. A lot of apps continue to run in the background even when you have come out of the app. This affects the android app memory usage adversely and causes the device to slow down. People commonly call this as a lag problem. There are various ways by which you can monitor the android app memory usage and improve your android memory management. We will talk about a very simple method here to monitor you android app memory usage.

Check Android app memory usage

To get started, you need to have the Developer options enabled on your android device. You can check out our guide on How to Speed Up Your Android Device to know more on the developer options. Once you have enabled the developer options, navigate to Settings – Developer Options.

Once in the Developer Options, navigate to Process Stats. This is where you can see the android app memory usage.

Tap on the Process Stats to open up the screen with the “Geeky stats about running processes”. You will be able to see the android memory usage for individual apps. It will also tell you the memory status which will help you in a better ‘Android memory management’. You can verify which app is hogging up your memory and you can go ahead and end it or stop the background process using the task manager.

There are tons of cool stuff that you can do with the developer options. Do check out the guide on How to Enable Anti-aliasing as well.

Do let us know if you have any questions on Android memory management. Also, try to check the Android app memory usage on your devices and let us know if it helped you to improve the performance on your Android device.

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About Arpit Roy

Arpit is a die hard Chelsea F.C. fan - a true blue through and through. He is a Solutions Architect by profession and loves to blog about technology, SEO and how-to guides in order to help others. He likes playing competitive football and FIFA in his free time.